Appropriate "Safety" Colleges for an MIT Applicant?

pebbles
Sat, 03 Nov 2007 03:29:52 +0000

hehe I think you have an inflated sense of Caltech admits. But it’s understandable, more common than you think. There are smart people and dumb people at every college.

Though I do agree that Caltech and HMC may have slightly more self selective applicant pools than MIT. And MIT in turn more self-selective than any of the Ivy Leagues, which in turn… you could go on, but what’s the point? There’s very little proof of any speculation of this sort.

p.s. I didn’t know much about Harvey Mudd when I was applying (but I wasn’t considering west coast schools anyways), it would have been a decent fit for me, probably- I think the reason people don’t know about Harvey Mudd has less to do with the fact that they are not “in the know” than the fact that they don’t “live on the west coast”. Just sayin’. Your school should advertise better.